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Elon Musk's Custody Battles and Child Support Payments Explained

Elon Musk navigates custody battles with Grimes, Justine Wilson Ashley St. Clair and Shivon Zilis across his complex parenting arrangements

“He hasn’t been a good dad,” Musk’s father, Errol, claimed in a February 2025 appearance on the “Wide Awake” podcast when asked about the tech guru. Wilson’s divorce lawyer ultimately tried to argue that the postnup was invalid since the author reportedly wasn’t informed of Musk’s significant business holdings when she signed the document. “Spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights having my Instagram posts and modeling used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids and fighting and detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me, with a fraction of his resources (or iq/ strategy experience), all the while I didn’t see one of my babies for 5 months,” Grimes alleged in November 2024.

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